Gertrude Wilson Hamilton, 1892-1978

HAMILTON, WILSON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 10/8/2010 at 19:21:27

ESTHERVILLE – Services for Mrs. Gertrude M. Hamilton, 86, Estherville, will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home, Estherville, with Father Tom Flanagan officiating. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Rosary will be said at 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Hamilton died Tuesday morning at Holy Family Hospital.

Friends may call at the funeral home until 9 p.m. today, from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and after 9 a.m. until time of service.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wilson, she was born on May 21, 1892, at Mallorytown, Canada. She received her education in Buffalo Center schools and was married to Thomas John Hamilton in March 1914, at Estherville

The couple lived in the Buffalo Center-Lakota area before moving to Estherville in 1933. She was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Estherville.

Mrs. Hamilton is survived by two sons, Thomas A. Hamilton, Estherville, and William W. Hamilton, Minneapolis, Minn.; one daughter, Mrs. C. Donald (Dawn) Howell, Ridgewood, N.J.; 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one brother, Thomas A. Wilson, Buffalo Center.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one daughter and one sister.

Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; November 22, 1978.